What is the 'glorious canopy of light and blue'?{night and death}
Answers
Answer:
Mysterious Night, when the first man but knew
Thee by report, unseen, and heard thy name,
Did he not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and blue?
Yet ’neath a curtain of translucent dew,
Bathed in the rays of the great setting flame,
Hesperus with the Host of Heaven came,
And lo!—Creation widened on his view!
Who could have thought what darkness lay conceal’d
Within thy beams, O Sun? or who could find
Whilst fly, and leaf, and insect stood reveal’d
That to such endless orbs thou mad’st us blind?
Weak man, why to shun Death this anxious strife?
If light can thus deceive, wherefore not Life?
Answer:
The answer is night.
Explanation:
White’s “Night and Death” is a sonnet allocated to Coleridge. The title of the poem indicates a connection in the middle of night and death as both are perceived negatively by humans. Through the poem, the poet tries to give a different frame of reference to them. The poet begins the poem with an interjection by calling the night as an inexplicable one. By the word ‘first parent’ he means Adam and he says Adam hears the word night from the divine. He feels terror-struck bythsignificancet that the night will soon replace the lovely sky of brightness. The emergence of the evening star is a beautiful vision and it made the humans feel excited. The sight which made him feel afraid initially excited him later. It has widened man’s view of the creation of the world.
Hence, the correct answer is night.
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